Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dinner and the ball were as successful as could be expected. The crowd was remarkably orderly and good-natured, - a consummation which was doubtless due to the wise action of the authorities in prohibiting rigorously the sale of all intoxicating drinks. The towns-people, however, were most hospitable, and did not withhold the refreshing cup from the weary pilgrim. Our most earnest thanks are due the Reception Committee of Lexington for the cordial welcome we received at their hands...
...Dinner...
...other days. Heretofore we have been accustomed to partake of mutton once a week, and have had veal quite a number of times. Now some persons dislike mutton exceedingly, and a great many consider a mouthful of veal hardly preferable to a dose of castor-oil. When the dinner, then, is composed of one of these meats, they have but two alternatives, - to eat what is set before them, or go hungry. We see no reason why we cannot have two kinds of meat as well as one, for our meat is purchased in such large quantities that the difference...
...that we have appointed them?" These questions we have never been fully able to answer, but, thinking that perhaps Directors were rather a good thing to have in the house, we have hitherto been silent. We probably should have remained so had it not been for last Friday's dinner. This went a trifle too far, and so stirred up our bowels (of wrath?) that we must enter a protest. Friday was fish day, and fish we had. The recollection of it is as fresh now in our minds as the taste was strong in our mouths...
Before my after-dinner...